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+{{Personal story
+| quote = <translate><!--T:1--> I discovered non-binary identities last year when I was 18. When I read the definition of "agender", it just clicked.</translate>
+| name = <translate><!--T:47--> Jay</translate>
+| age = <translate><!--T:48--> 19</translate>
+| identity = <translate><!--T:2--> Agender</translate>
+}}
+{{infobox identity
+| flag = agender.png
+| meaning = Black: absence of gender; grey: partial gender; green: gender that isn't related to male or female.
+| related = [[Agenderfluid]] and [[Agenderflux]]
+| umbrella = [[Nonbinary]]
+| frequency = 23.8%
+| gallery_link = Pride Gallery/Agender
+}}
+'''Agender''' (also called '''genderblank'''{{citation needed}}, '''genderfree''', '''genderless''', '''gendervoid'''{{citation needed}}, '''non-gendered,''' '''ungendered'''<ref name="Eyler">{{cite journal|last1=Eyler |first1=A.E.|last2=Wright |first2=K.|year=1997|url=https://cdn.atria.nl/ezines/web/IJT/97-03/numbers/symposion/ijtc0102.htm|title=Gender Identification and Sexual Orientation Among Genetic Females with Gender-Blended Self-Perception in Childhood and Adolescence.|journal=International Journal of Transgenderism|quote=An individual of any genetic sex may also regard him-herself as neither a woman nor a man, but a member of some other gender, as is common in non-Western cultures (and is becoming increasingly recognized in the West as well), or as an ungendered person, who does not or will not identify with any conventional gender.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718084440/https://cdn.atria.nl/ezines/web/IJT/97-03/numbers/symposion/ijtc0102.htm|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>, or '''null gender'''{{citation needed}}) is an identity under the [[nonbinary]] and [[transgender]] [[umbrella terms]]. Agender individuals find that they have no [[gender identity]], although some define it more as having a gender identity that is neutral. (See [[gender neutral]] for a related identity.)
+Agender Pride day is celebrated on the 19th of May.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Important LGBT Dates |author= |work=LGBTLifeWestchester.org |date= |access-date=11 November 2021 |url= https://www.lgbtlifewestchester.org/important_lgbt_dates|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213102536/http://www.lgbtlifewestchester.org/important_lgbt_dates|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Agender Pride Day |last=Ohene |first=Benjamin |work=Believe Out Loud |date= |access-date=11 November 2021 |url= https://www.believeoutloud.com/voices/article/agender-pride-day/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531145919/http://www.believeoutloud.com/voices/article/agender-pride-day/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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 Some agender people feel that they have no gender identity, while others feel that agender is itself a gender identity. This can be similar to or overlap with the experience of being [[gender neutral]] or having a neutral gender identity.
+Sociologist Canton Winer's research on [[gender detachment]] found that several people they interviewed said they used the term agender for themselves, suggesting an overlap between agender experiences and gender detachment.<ref>Winer, C. (2025). Does Everyone Have a Gender? Compulsory Gender, Gender Detachment, and Asexuality. ''Socius'', ''11''. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231251339382</nowiki> (Original work published 2025)</ref> However, not all of the gender-detached people in Winer's sample described themselves as agender, and those who did often related to it as a label of convenience rather than an authentic-feeling representation of self.
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